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I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had ...

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In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For w...

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Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of ...

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Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God and the things of God.

Certainly this is a duty not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."

By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heav...

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When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man...

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When I was young I was sure of everything in a few years having been mistaken a thousand times I ...

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Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you ca...

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Is it not hard that even those who are with us should be against us - that a man's enemies, in some ...

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Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possibl...

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No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification...

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How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by s...

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Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not wh...

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I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard...

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When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man...

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As for reputation, though it be a glorious instrument of advancing our Master's service, yet there i...

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Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and ...

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Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you ca...

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I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be p...

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Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a...

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You have one business on earth – to save souls.

I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, f...

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When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I ...

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Bear up the hands that hang down by faith and prayer support the tottering knees. Storm the throne...

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Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.

Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?

I asked long ago,'What must I do to be saved?' The Scripture answered, 'Keep the commandments, belie...

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It was a common saying among the Christians in the primitive Church, "The soul and the body make a m...

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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Letters of John Wesley

To explain this a little further: Only the soul and the body are the natural constituent parts of me...

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How To Pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer

The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, ...

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A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (Foundations of Faith)

Purge me from every sinful blot;My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought,From ...

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Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your fam...

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John Wesley

Theologian

Born: 1703-06-17

Died: 1791-03-02

John Wesley (28 June 1703 – 2 March 1791) was a British cleric, theologian, and evangelist, who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day.More